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Dice and gods on the Silk Road : Chinese Buddhist dice divination in transcultural context

Title
Dice and gods on the Silk Road : Chinese Buddhist dice divination in transcultural context / by Brandon Dotson, Constance A, Cook, Zhao Lu.
Author
Dotson, Brandon, 1978-
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

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Additional Authors
  • Cook, Constance A.
  • Lu, Zhao (Professor of China studies)
Description
xiii, 339 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles; 25 cm.
Summary
"What do dice and gods have in common? What is the relationship between dice divination and dice gambling? This interdisciplinary collaboration situates the tenth-century Chinese Buddhist "Divination of Maheśvara" within a deep Chinese backstory of divination with dice and numbers going back to at least the 4th century BCE. Simultaneously, the authors track this specific method of dice divination across the Silk Road and into ancient India through a detailed study of the material culture, poetics, and ritual processes of dice divination in Chinese, Tibetan, and Indian contexts. The result is an extended meditation on the unpredictable movements of gods, dice, divination books, and divination users across the various languages, cultures, and religions of the Silk Road"--
Series Statement
Prognostication in history ; volume 7
Uniform Title
Prognostication in history ; v. 7.
Subject
  • Divination > China
  • Divination > Tibet Region
  • Divination > India
  • Divination > Silk Road
  • Faith and reason > Buddhism
  • Dice > Religious aspects > Buddhism
  • Dice > Religious aspects > Hinduism
  • Divination
  • Asia > Silk Road
  • China
  • China > Tibet Region
  • India
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language (note)
  • Text in English and Chinese.
Contents
Introduction: Playing Dice with the Gods -- 1. The Divination of Maheśvara -- 2. The Divination of Maheśvara and Chinese Numerical Trigram Divination -- 3. The Divination of Maheśvara and Indic Dice Divination -- Conclusions: Inheriting the Wind -- Appendix: Divining with Sixteen Numerical Trigrams -- Bibliography -- Index.
Call Number
JFE 22-352
ISBN
  • 9004461205
  • 9789004461208
LCCN
2021016045
OCLC
1241443376
Author
Dotson, Brandon, 1978- author.
Title
Dice and gods on the Silk Road : Chinese Buddhist dice divination in transcultural context / by Brandon Dotson, Constance A, Cook, Zhao Lu.
Publisher
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Prognostication in history ; volume 7
Prognostication in history ; v. 7.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language
Text in English and Chinese.
Added Author
Cook, Constance A., author.
Lu, Zhao (Professor of China studies), author.
Other Form:
Online version: Dotson, Brandon, 1978- Dice and gods on the silk road Boston : Brill, 2021 9789004464377 (DLC) 2021016046
Research Call Number
JFE 22-352
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